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I dislike supermarket tactics where so many items display prominent price signs saying 'Buy 2' or 'Buy any three' for ?x number of pounds. Paying less for buying quantity is not unusual in business,...
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Previously I've made web pages with background music but now my usual method doesn't work any more. My PC was recently 'cleaned up' and programs re-installed as it had become very slow. I have XP and...
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Is anyone else having a problem with emails not downloading? MailWasher shows me that messages exist on the Orange (ISP) webmail server, but when I click to Process Mail, then Send/Receive on Outlook...
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I created and uploaded some web pages with sound (MIDI) files and have used different ISPs from time to time. There was no problem with Internet Explorer 6 but now I have upgraded to IE 7 there is no...
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My PC has recently been in dock for an upgrade and re-installation, partly because it had become very slow. I'm a bit disappointed that it now makes an irritating humming noise. Sometimes It's not too...
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I'm short of storage space and looking for a decorative cover for my upright vacuum cleaner, something like a doll, so it can stand in my spare bedroom. I've seen them in other people's homes from...
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I know Google's opening page has odd decorations at times, but am I alone in finding it now opens with an all black background? Is something wrong with my PC? I've changed settings to open with...
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I see there are many references in AB to digital TV but I don't know where to start, so advice would be welcome please. Maybe I am still in the dark ages with just four TV channels - BBC 1 and 2, and...
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The news media often refers to poverty, especially child poverty, but never actually defines it. What do ABERs understand by poverty? With all the benefits people claim these days does child poverty...
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I have IncrediMail among my Program Files, and don't remember downloading it or how it got there. I use Outlook Express and MailWasher which are quite sufficient and cannot find how to uninstall...
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I live in an old bungalow and have problems with moss from the tiled roof roof blocking the gutters. I explored Guttershield (a kind of strainer covering) but this could not be fitted because the...
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It's the time of year when Yellow Pages are appearing on people's doorsteps all over the place - whether they want them or not. They are bigger and heavier than other kinds of directory advertising;...
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My modest home is 'all electric' with off-peak storage heaters. Power failures have happened occasionally but luckily they've been fairly brief. I do wonder whether to have gas connected and would it...
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I have an 'Old Times' website with background music. When I upgraded Windows Media Player from version 9 to 11 it did not produce the sound so I had to uninstall and roll back to the previous version...
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Once more, starting now in January 2008, we are going to hear a lot about the USA election process, as between democrats and republicans. It seems that democracy and republicanism must be two...
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I know some people agree with the death penalty and others don't, but the American way of keeping criminals on 'death row', sometimes for very many years, seems like gruesome mental torture. Life...
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I have an electric lawn mower and a household vacuum cleaner that I would like to advertise for sale. They seem to me to be in good condition and it would be a pity to dump them. Where would I stand...
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There's a lot on AB about the 12 days of Christmas - when they begin and end and so on - but does anyone know the background, as to how the twelve days idea actually started?
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I've read that the newly refurbished St Pancras Station has a new roof fitted with 18,000 panes of self-cleaning glass. Does anyone understand this and how it self-cleans? Would it be practicable in...
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I'm puzzled about Netherlands. What actually is or are the Netherlandsand why so-called? It's easy enough to look at a map and see the area, but that's what I always thought was Holland. Why the...
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